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Basedon1990svideosfoundontheInternet,ShuruqHarbimaginesthestreamofconsciousnessofaPalestinianteenagerandherworriesaboutfriendshipandromanceinthepoliticalclimateoftheOsloAccords.Betweenthelossofafriend,whowasanactivistintheFirstIntifada,andherdistrustofaboyfriendwhostealsIsraelicarsclaimingitisapoliticalgesture,theteenagerobserves,doubtsandsuspendsherjudgement.Thefilm’ssemi-autobiographicalinspirationentersintotensionwithitsIsraelipopculturesources:theGulfWar,theFirstIntifadaandthetrancemusicscenewhich,inTelAviv,offersyoungTsahalsoldiersachanceatdecompression.Thefilmmakercastsacriticalgazeonthisculturewhosedistortingmirrormakesitdifficultforadevelopingyoungstertoself-identify.Theonlythingthatmakesitpossibletomomentarilyforgetthedivideistheraveparty–“72hoursofmusicalmadness”,whereshecanpassherselfoffasanIsraeli.“Weallwantedtoescapefromsomething,himasasoldier,ustodisappear…”Apersonalityisspawnedthroughfiguresthateludeallassignedidentities,asforexampleDanaInternational,theIsraelisingerofYemenioriginwhowasthefirsttranspersontowintheEurovisioncontest–amixoforiginsandaphysicaltransformationleavetheirmarkonaneditingapproachthatfragmentsmorethanitconstructs:“Whenyoutakesomethingapart,howdoyouknowwhatitwaslikeinthebeginning?”(CharlotteGarson)